Fwd: [icacaribbean] Fwd: [alac] ALAC position on ICANN/Verisign deal?

¿Y qué va con el Caribe hispanofóno?

--- Jacqueline Morris <jam@jacquelinemorris.com> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:41:48 -0400
> From: Jacqueline Morris <jam@jacquelinemorris.com>
> To: "Caribbean ICT virtual community CIVIC" <icacaribbean@dgroups.org>
> Subject: [icacaribbean] Fwd: [alac] ALAC position on ICANN/Verisign deal?
>
> Hi
> Can we get caribbean input on this - see the
> issues summarised below by John.
> Jacqueline
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: John L <johnl@iecc.com>
>> Date: 16 Feb 2006 14:19:59 -0500
>> Subject: [alac] ALAC position on ICANN/Verisign deal?
>> To: ALAC <alac@icann.org>
>>
>> The ALAC really should prepare a position on this in the next week.
>>
>> One concern about it is that it entrenches an
>> above-market above-cost pricing structure in .com, a "sausage slicing" issue
>> that doesn't affect any individual user too
>> much but in aggregate extracts a great deal of money from us.
>>
>> Another is that it further isolates ICANN
>> from oversight, of which they need more, not less.
>>
>> And if the issue is stability, it is clear
>> from the recent statements of all the big
>> registrars that ICANN will be buried in lawsuits if they try
>> to go ahead with this. The uncertainty if
>> ICANN tries to go ahead is immense.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of
>> "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be,
>> http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor "I dropped the
>> toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
>>
>> --
>> Jacqueline Morris
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